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Cayton
Cayton
	St John the Baptist's Church, Cayton
	Cayton Location within North Yorkshire
Population	2,328 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	TA053833
• London	185 mi (298 km) S
Civil parish	Cayton;
Unitary authority	North Yorkshire;
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire;
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SCARBOROUGH
Postcode district	YO11
Dialling code	01723
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Scarborough and Whitby;
	List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°14′07″N 0°23′00″W / 54.23528°N 0.38333°W

Cayton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, 4 miles (6 km) south of Scarborough.

History

Cayton is mentioned in the Domesday book as "Caitune".

In 2010, Cayton won a Silver-gilt, at the Britain in Bloom awards. This was achieved despite earlier sabotage attacks on a number of flower beds in the village.^[2]

Second World War

Second World War defences were constructed around Cayton. They included a section post and several pillboxes. Many of the remaining defences have been subject to coastal erosion.

The village sent 45 men to the First World War, and 60 to the Second. There was not a single fatality amongst the combined 105 men, with only one soldier suffering a serious injury during the First World War, then being subsequently spared by a German Officer.^[2]

Cayton Bay Landslide

In April 2008, a major landslip caused tons of earth to slip down the cliff side at the edge of Cayton Bay close to Osgodby,^[3] leaving bungalows on the Knipe Point estate teetering on the edge of the cliff.^[4] The slope movements, caused by water seeping through the clay cliffs,^[5] resulted in three properties being demolished and other properties in the Knipe Point Estate and the A165 Filey Road being threatened.^[6] A number of the remaining homes are still at risk as the slope and the National Trust land below it are designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI); despite an initial outlay of £90,000^[7] by Scarborough Borough Council and the National Trust an engineered solution could not be found that would satisfy the technical, environmental and cost-effective criteria set by Natural England, the Environment Agency and Defra.^[8]

Governance

An electoral ward of the same name exists. The population of this ward at the 2011 UK census was 4,152.^[9] Cayton parish had a population of 2,328^[1] a decrease on the 2001 UK census figure of 2,407.^[10]

Community

Cayton County Primary School educates pupils aged 4 to 11 years.

Cayton Bay forms one of a series of large sweeping sandy bays on the edge of the North Yorkshire National Park which run from Bridlington in the south to Whitby in the north. There is a surf shop and car park on the cliff tops above the bay.

Cayton railway station on the Yorkshire Coast Line from Hull to Scarborough served the village until it closed on 5 May 1952.^[11]